Great Santini, The (1979) - (Movie Clip) Squirt A Few

Great Santini, The - (Original Trailer)

A marine (Robert Duvall) has problems adjusting to domestic life during peacetime in The Great Santini (1979).

Great Santini, The (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Welcome Home, Colonel

Introducing the family of the title character (Robert Duvall as the Marine pilot “Bull” Meechum), Blythe Danner as mom Lillian, Michael O’Keefe as Ben (representing Pat Conroy from his autobiographical novel), with Lisa Jane Persky, Brian Andrews and Jullie Anne Haddock, early in The Great Santini, 1979.

Great Santini, The (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Would You Like To Be Killed In Action?

En route to his new post at Beaufort, South Carolina, 1962, Robert Duvall as Marine Col. “Bull” Meechum (title character), Michael O’Keefe his son Ben, the substantially autobiographical character from the Pat Conroy novel, Blythe Danner as wife Lillian, in The Great Santini, 1979.

Great Santini, The (1979) -- (Movie Clip) You're Probably Wondering Why I Attacked You

Reporting to his new post in South Carolina, 1962, belligerent Marine pilot Col. Meechum (Robert Duvall) attacks unsuspecting Atchley (Bennett Liss), thinking he was surprising his old buddy, fellow officer Hedgepath (Paul Mantee), in The Great Santini, 1979, from the Pat Conroy novel.

Great Santini, The (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Over Spain, 1962

Opening with the biggest aerial scene in the picture, Robert Duvall as the self-nicknamed title character, Marine pilot Col. “Bull” Meechum, in exercises against Navy pilots in Spain, Lewis John Carlino directing, from his script from the Pat Conroy novel, in The Great Santini, 1979.